...but here, as everywhere in Whispering Glades, failing credulity was fortified by the painted word. This perfect replica of an old English Manor, a notice said, like all the buildings of Whispering Glades, is constructed of Grade A steel and concrete with foundations extending into solid rock. It is certified proof against fire, earthquake andTheir name liveth for evermore who record it in Whispering Glades. At the blank patch, a signwriter was even then at work and Dennis, pausing to study it, discerned the ghost of the words 'high explosive' freshly obliterated and the outlines of 'nuclear fission' about to be filled in...
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We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul .
Herbert Hoover
The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
...but here, as everywhere in Whispering Glades, failing credulity was fortified by the painted word.
This perfect replica of an old English Manor, a notice said, like all the buildings of Whispering Glades, is constructed of Grade A steel and concrete with foundations extending into solid rock. It is certified proof against fire, earthquake andTheir name liveth for evermore who record it in Whispering Glades.
At the blank patch, a signwriter was even then at work and Dennis, pausing to study it, discerned the ghost of the words 'high explosive' freshly obliterated and the outlines of 'nuclear fission' about to be filled in...
The Loved One - Evelyn Waugh (1948)